Bed-bottom



BED BOTTOM.

Patented May 25, 1886.

UNITED STATES PATENT OF ICE.

JOHN SHEPHERD, OF MEMPHIS, MICHIGAN.

BED-BOTTOM.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 342,545, dated May 25, 1886.

Application filed March 11. 1886. Serial No. 194,765. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, JOHN SHEPHERD, of Memphis, in the county of Macomb and State of Michigan, have invented new and useful Improvements in Bed-Bottoms; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates'to certain new and novel improvements in bed-bottoms.

The object of the invention is to provide a bed-bottom with an adjustable head-section that can be raised or lowered, as circumstances may require, upon various degrees of inclination, and in so constructing the parts that this head-section may be provided with springs, the same as the body or main portion of the bed-bottom.

To this end the invention consists in the peculiar construction and operation of the headsection, and in the peculiar construction, arrangement; and combination of the parts, all as more fully hereinafter set forth.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved bed-bottom with head-section raised. Fig. 2- is'a cross-section on the line at m.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, A represents the frameof a bed-bottom, upon the cross bars or slats B of which are placed suit-able coil-springs. (Not shown.) 4

0 represents the head-section, which is pivotally secured to the frame A, as follows: The inner faces of the two outside longitudinal rails, A, of the frame are recessed, as at a, to receive the headed ends of the rods D, which project through slotted plates E, secured to rails A. in such a manner that the rods can easily slide in the plates in the longitudinal direction of the bed.

F are brace-rods, one end of each of which is pivotally connected to the head-section, while their opposite ends are similarly secured to the frame A.

G is a bail, preferably pivotally secured to the rods D, the bar of the bail being designed to engage with the rack-bars H, secured to the longitudinal bars of the frame.

In practice, when it is desired to adjust the SI head-section, the operator raises up on the same, causing it to turn upon the fulcrums formed at the point where the brace-bars are pivoted to it, while the foot of the head-section, being confined by the bars D, slides toward the head of the frame until the desired inclination is obtained, the bail G engaging with the rack-bars. preventing it from falling or sliding back. ToloWer the head-section, the operator pulls upon a cord, I, one end of which is at- 6 tached to the bail. This releases the hail from its engagement with the rack-bars, when the section can be readily pushed down, or it may assume such position by gravity.

It will be observed that by providing for 6 the sliding movement of the foot of the headsection in raising the lower spring-bar of such section recedes from the adjacent spring-bar of the frame, thus precluding thepossibility of these respective springs interlocking or catching, while at the same time it brings the springs to a position where they will form a support to the body when in a reclining position. It will also be observed that the longitudinal bars of the frame .A cannot spread at 7 the points where they are located, as the plates E prevent the heads of the rods from drawing out of their-recesses, while they are free to move horizontally.

I am aware of the patents Nos. 25$,084 and S 260,405, and make no claim to the construction shown therein as forming part of my invention.

WVhat I claim as my invention is' The combination, with the frame A, recessed E at a, and the slotted plate E, of the headed bolts D, the head-section 0, supported by said rods, bail G, pivotally secured to said rods, links F, connecting said frame and head-section, and the rack-bars H, secured to the ceng tral rails, A, and adapted to engage said'bail, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

JOHN SHEPHERD.

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H. S. SPRAGUE, A. BARTHEL. 

